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Peletiah Scribner
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Biographies of Thomas Parker Scribner Family
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Biography of Peletiah Scribner
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Biography of Samuel G. Scribner
Samuel was a farmer, whose family's life was a difficult struggle,
filled with tragedy, unhappiness and great sorrow, as you will soon see.
Samuel, Mehitable and Mary are buried alongside one another in the Coombs
Mills Cemetery, located at the intersection of Leighton, Mt. Vernon, and
Old Oakland Roads.
According to his pension file, Charles William Scribner was born in
Brighton, Somerset, Maine before June in 1830. A corresponding entry
appears for Aaron Scribner at Brighton, Somerset County, Maine in the 1830
Census (National Archives M19, Roll 51, page 259). This entry indicates
that Aaron's family group consisted of 3 free white males under age 5
[John C., Enoch W., and Charles W.]; one free white male age 30-40
[Aaron]; and one free white female age 30-40 [Rhoda].
Per "Early Vital Records of Waterborough, Maine," NEHGR, 90 (Boston, MA:
The New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1937): [note 826], page
115, Aaron Scribner was the fifth child of Thomas Parker Scribner and
Esther Jellison (born March 3, 1799 in Waterborough, Maine). Aaron met his
wife Rhoda Carll (11th and youngest child of John Carll; Rhoda was born
February 16, 1798), married her in approximately 1824 (probably in either
York or Somerset Counties, Maine), and had four sons (John, Enoch, Charles
William, and Thomas P.) while living in Brighton, Somerset County, Maine
until the late 1830s.
The American Revolutionary War ended in 1783 with the Treaty of Paris.
Under the Terms, Great Britain surrendered the Old Northwest to the United
States and Virginia and other states ceded their claims to the Old
Northwest to the federal government. In 1787 this was organized as the
Northwest Territory. which included pretty much everything outside of the
original 13 colonies that belonged to the United States. In 1800 Illinois
was included in the Indiana Territory and in 1809 was organized as the
Illinois Territory which included all of Illinois, most of Wisconsin and
large parts of Michigan and Minnesota. Although the United States had
expanded to include the Great Lakes area, the territory was geographically
difficult to access. In the 1820's, however, the Erie Canal was built in
New York, linking Lake Erie up the canal to the Hudson River at Albany; a
single continuous waterway for shipping was therefore made available from
the ports on the Great Lakes (providing access to the interior of the
North American Continent) directly to the port at New York City at the
sheltered bay at the mouth of the Hudson River. This canal provided an
explosion in commerce and corresponding migration to the Great Lakes
region.
Aaron Scribner was one of those who migrated to the Great Lakes region in
search of new opportunities for his family after the building of the Erie
Canal. He moved his family to New York between 1835-1839 (where daughter
Sarah was born). Rhoda's mother Mary Carll, who was living with Aaron and
Rhoda, filed her Revolutionary War Widow's pension application on February
11, 1839; at that time, she stated her residence was in Vernon, Oneida
County, New York, and her pension file contains an affidavit from Aaron
Scribner at the same location. Presumptively, then, that was the location
of Aaron's residence, and Sarah was most likely born in Vernon, Oneida
County, New York.
Aaron moved the family even further into the region to Concord Township,
Lake County, Ohio sometime between February 11, 1839 [the date Mary filed
her pension application] and June 1840 [before the census enumeration, at
which time Aaron and family were enumerated as residents in Concord, Lake
County, Ohio]. An Aaron Scribner appears in the census records with
correlating family information at Ohio, Lake County, Township of Concord
in the 1840 Census Records (National Archives, M704, Reel 407, page 85;
Ancestry Image #335 of 377. The entry enumerates Aaron's family group with
one free white male age 5-9 [Thomas P.]; 3 free white males age 10-15
[Charles W., Enoch W., and John C.]; one free white male age 40-50
[Aaron]; one free white female under age 5 [Sarah]; and one free white
female age 40-50 [Rhoda]. The Ohio census data is completely consistent
with the earlier family group enumerated in the 1830 Maine census data.
Rhoda's mother Mary (Morrill) Carll traveled with them from New York to
Ohio; she had been widowed and was a Revolutionary War Pensioner; she
appears on a Pensioner Census in Ohio, Lake County in Aaron Scribner's
household in 1840 [The Pension Lists of 1792-1795, compiled by Murtie June
Clark; published by Genealogical Publishing Company; available online at
Genealogy Library.com). The Revolutionary War Pension Application that
Mary filed based on the service of her deceased husband John Carll is
published at "Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Applications,"
National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 33, page 24. Mary died in
Painesville, Lake County, Ohio, in 1841 (adjacent to Concord Township at
that time).
Aaron may not have moved to Ohio by himself. A marriage record for a
"Sally" Scribner to a man named James Fox is recorded in Lake County, Ohio
on November 19, 1843. Aaron had a younger sister known as "Sally." There
is also an 1812 War bounty land grant in Zanesville, Ohio for one
"Peletiah" Scribner. Aaron had an older brother named Peletiah; this was a
very unusual name, and he was of the right age to have fought in the War
of 1812. One conflicting source holds that Aaron's brother Peletiah died
young, however, so this is not conclusive. The census of 1840 shows the
following Scribner household heads to be present in Lake County, Ohio in
1840, in addition to Aaron: Joseph, Benjamin, Abel, and William W.
Aaron's youngest son Samuel did not appear in the 1840 census because he
was born during the residence at Concord, Ohio in 1841 (the year after the
census). After Samuel was born and mother-in-law Mary died in December
1841, Aaron moved his family to Michigan (within the Illinois territory);
this move must have occurred between 1842-1850.
Aaron finally settled in Sterling Township, Macomb County, Michigan before
1850, and became a farmer. Aaron died April 10, 1854 in Warren, Macomb
County, Michigan; Rhoda's death is as-yet undocumented. While living in
Sterling, Aaron's next-door neighbor in the 1850 census was Frederick
George Hetchler, a Pennsylvania Dutch German descendent, who migrated from
Elba, Genesee County, New York to Michigan between 1841-1843. Frederick's
oldest daughter, Minerva, married Aaron's third son Charles William
Scribner.
1830 Census Note: Thomas Parker Scribner, Robert's father is living with him, and Robert's Mother Esther is missing [probably deceased between 1820-1830]. Additionally, an entry consistent with Robert's sister Susan. Unaccounted for here are his two youngest daughters Sally and Mary.
Biography of Thomas Parker Scribner
Thomas Parker Scribner, born in 1763 in Rockingham County, New
Hampshire, was the eldest child of John Scribner. While in Waterborough,
Thomas married Esther Jellison on May 20, 1789, whose family had also
moved to Waterborough to engage in lumbering as part of the first
permanent settlement. Esther had been born in Waterborough on July 26,
1752. Thomas and Esther's family Group is documented in an article in the
New England Historial and Genealogical Register that compiles the early
vital records of Waterborough, Maine in four parts: "Vital Records of
Waterboro, Maine," NEHGR Vol. 91, p. 115. The vital records of
Waterborough are documented in Volume 90, pages 225-254 & pages 314-337,
and Volume 91, pages 15-35 & pages 113-126.
At least part of Thomas' family relocated to Brighton, Somerset County,
Maine between 1823 [the year son Robert was married to first wife Nancy
Ham in Waterborough] and 1827 [the year grandson John C. Scribner was born
to son Aaron and his wife Rhoda Carll in Brighton]. Because Aaron and
Rhoda were married in about 1824, the location of their marriage in either
place would further help to establish the time of relocation. Somerset
County is where Thomas' brother Daniel's son Daniel had earlier relocated
-- to Parkman. Thomas' sons Aaron and Robert were both enumerated as heads
of households in the 1830 federal census in Brighton, Somerset County,
Maine. [In that census, Robert's age must be misreported as between 15-19
rather than within the correct range including 27 years; other than this,
Robert's enumerated family group record reflects the correct information
to include his new wife Eliza Shorey as well as his father Thomas Parker
and sister Susan [who never married]. Due to the absence of Thomas' first
wife Esther in this census, we can likely conclude that she deceased
between the two census in 1820 and 1830. However, the two sisters Sally
and Mary [of whom we know little] are not accounted for in this
enumeration.] We know that Thomas Parker Scribner was in Brighton before
November 1930 because he married Deborah MacFarland there in that month.
Esther therefore could have died either in Waterborough or in Brighton. A
grave and death record should be sought from both places to establish her
place and date of death, and perhaps the circumstances. Thomas
subsequently remarried twice while in Brighton after Esther's death and
before his own in 1849; first, to Deborah [Widow McFarland], then to
Judith [Widow Libby]. Thomas P. Scribner's obituary was published in the
Free Will Baptist weekly newspaper, "The Morning Star." In this obituary,
it is written that "he lived a very exemplary life till death, which was
peaceful and calm, he being filled with the grace of God." "The Morning
Star," Dover, N.H., 1 August 1849, Page 64, Column 6.
In the early part of the 1800's, several of Thomas' children and their
spouses left Maine for the Midwest states (Ohio, Indiana, Michigan,
Illinois). Pelatiah served in a Maine Regiment during the War of 1812, and
received a Bounty Land Grant for land in Adams County, Illinois, which was
delivered in Zanesville, Ohio. He married Elizabeth Stebbins in Morgan
County, Illinois after being discharged from the Army. Aaron and Rhoda
went to Oneida, New York and then to Lake County, Ohio before 1840.
Rhoda's mother Mary Carll had been widowed and traveled with them. Mary
died while Rhoda and Aaron were in Ohio, and then Aaron and Rhoda moved
their family to Macomb County, Michigan. John and Thankful also moved to
the Midwest. While we do not know exactly where they went or when,
Thankful was found in an 1860 census in Dearborn County, Indiana, a widow
working as a domestic.
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